Join republican strategist and political commentator Mary Matalin for a discussion on “Politics, the Presidency, and the Press,” on Thursday, October 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Balch Auditorium, Scripps College.
Mary Matalin, who formerly served as assistant to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney, appears frequently as a political commentator and co-hosted the critically acclaimed political talk shows Crossfire and Equal Time. Her three-hour afternoon program on CBS Talk Radio Network, The Mary Matalin Show, highlighted current events and featured distinguished guests. Talkers Magazine included her as one of The 100 Most Important Talk Show Hosts in America in 1996, 1997, and 1998. She recently appeared on HBO’s K-Street, the new weekly series about the world of powerful political consultants.
Matalin has written for various periodicals including Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times. She co-authored the best-selling political campaign book All’s Fair: Love, War and Running for President (1994) with husband, James Carville, chief campaign strategist for Clinton/Gore in 1992. Her most recent book, Letters to My Daughters (2004), appeared on both The New York Times and The Washington Post best-seller lists and was named a Book of the Month Club selection. She now runs Threshold, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster. Threshold has published several titles including Mary Cheney’s Now It’s My Turn and most recently, Ed Gillespie’s Winning Right: Campaign Politics and Conservative Policies.
Active in politics since college, Matalin began her political career at the grassroots level in local and statewide campaigns in her native Illinois. After attending Hofstra University School of Law, Matalin served the Republican National Committee (RNC) in Washington, D.C., as national voter contact director for the Reagan-Bush campaign. She held senior positions in the George H. W. Bush 1988 campaign and, upon President Bush’s election, was appointed chief of staff for the RNC.
The Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program was named in honor of Elizabeth Hubert Malott ’53 who expressed interest in ensuring that students at Scripps were exposed to a wide array of academic and co-curricular offerings. The speaker series makes manifest her belief that a range of opinions about the world—especially opinions with which we may not agree, or think we agree—leads to a better educational experience.